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The Syndicate's Financier Wernher and De Beers History
Kunz of Tiffany & Co. discusses Sir Julius Wernher head of the De Beers Syndicate and Beit in London. The piece recalls the four founders led by Rhodes, the 1889 unification of South African mines, the syndicate's policing to curb theft, and the later burdens on Wernher after Rhodes's and Beit's deaths. It notes attacks on diamond prices, war funding, and Wernher's loss on a bogus artificial diamond scheme.
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Sir Julius Charles Warnher
de Beers Diamond
Wernher, Beit & Co
London
Cecil Rhodes
de Beers
Kimberley
South Africa
Sir Julius
George F. Kunz
Tiffany & Co
de Beers Syndicate
Sir Julius Wernher
de Beers Company
Cecil John Rhodes
B. J. Barnato
Alfred Bell
Ent
Mr. Kunz
Wernher
Rhodes
Bell
Gardner F. Williams
Neo Ay Fa
Berane Se
Barnato
Rhodesia
Paul Kruger
England
Dom Paul
Beit
Wernher, Bell Co
Wenn
Henri Lemone
Lemone
Julius Wernher
Derrick Wernher
Money Lendera Beere
Dee
Der